Kaliningrad Is Really Königsberg And Belongs In Europe, Not Russia

The Soviet Union seized Königsberg from Germany after WWII, exactly as it seized all of Eastern Europe. Eastern Europe is now independent again. Königsberg should now be returned to Germany.

At the Potsdam Conference held from 17 July - 2 August 1945 at the end of WWII in Europe, the allies placed the administration of all of Eastern Europe (including Königsberg) temporarily under the Soviet Union. The other allies, including France, Great Britain and the United States, were given the administration of the Western European nations, including West Berlin and West Germany. Just as they did with all the nations of Eastern Europe and the eastern section of Germany, the USSR did not settle for administering the Eastern European nations under its control, they went much further by making them vassal states under the firm control of Moscow with no independence whatsoever, even integrating them into the Soviet Union as “republics”, and trying very hard to wipe out their historic cultures, languages and identities. Königsberg was renamed Kaliningrad and made into a Soviet “oblast”, or region/state of the USSR. The native Germans and other European citizens who had lived there for centuries were forcibly removed and ethnic Russians were brought in from Russia to settle and repopulate the region as a smaller, mirror image of the USSR, rapidly erasing any vestiges of Königsberg’s German past.